Halloween 2010

The Halloween festivities began with the annual neighborhood parade and party. It was the boys first chance to wear their costumes (and they're really into dressing up)! The boys favorite part was the inflatable slide-no surprise and my favorite part was watching Great Pumpkin Charlie Brown outside under the stars. I bet it's been 20 years since I've seen that movie! That makes me feel old! Esp. since the boys had no idea who Snoopy was!






Halloween weekend:
Since Halloween fell on a Saturday this year we decided to seize the opportunity and do something we talked about for years. . . host a big Halloween party! The preparations began week before including bringing in hay bails and getting plenty of lights and decorations. I didn't cook (brilliant idea on my part!) we just had appetizers and treats and lots and lots of drinks. Blake makes a mean 'party punch' and I perfected my jello-shot receipe (after several failed attempts! The good thing about messing up jello-shots is that you can happily consume the mistake). I think it's pretty safe to say that between the drinks, spook-alley and friends, a good time was had by all!







Now I need to back up a couple of days and post some pics of the boys Halloween party at their preschool. I volunteered in their class that day and it was so fun to see the kids in their adorable costumes! It was also neat to see the boys in their class. I was very surprised to see that they NEVER sat next to one another! I was afraid that they would be too dependent on one another and that a splitting them for kindergarten would be traumatic. Their teacher said that there are days when they're joined at the hip and days they are on opposite sides of the room. Go figure!


Then the big day finally arrived! The boys were super excited about trick-or-treating (and to be honest, I was feeling a little Halloweened-out at this point)! They ran back from the houses telling us every single piece of candy they got. It was really cute! We let the boys go hog-wild with the candy for the fist 2 days and then I put it up and they didn't ask for it for days. Then it was rationed out.